Dutch police made a mistake by seizing 47,000 cannabis plants which were in fact part of a legal experiment Photo: REUTERS "More than half the plants were destroyed," Simon Vink, spokesman for the university, said on Thursday.

The plants were part of a legal experiment on the suitability of cannabis fibres for the production of textiles, paper and synthetic materials, he said.

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